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INTO THE MYSTIC
Van Morrison · Moondance · 1970 · Neptune / Pisces / 12th House
Van Morrison born August 31, 1945.
Virgo Sun. but this song is not Virgo.
this song is where Virgo goes
when it stops analyzing
and surrenders.
Into the Mystic is the 12th house experience.
the dissolution of the self into something larger.
the place you go when the map runs out.
"we were born before the wind
also younger than the sun"
that's not a lyric.
that's a cosmological statement
about the soul pre-existing the body.
he knew it. he sang it straight.
"and when that foghorn blows
I will be coming home"
the foghorn is the call of the unconscious.
the fog is Neptune.
home is not a place. it's a frequency.
the one you came from
before you had a name.
the horn solo at 2:40 doesn't resolve —
it just opens.
that's deliberate.
Pisces doesn't close. it dissolves into the next thing.
the song ends but the feeling doesn't.
that's the whole mystical tradition
in 3 minutes and 28 seconds.
Virgo counted all the notes.
then realized counting wasn't enough.
the mystic is what comes after.
what AstroTeks is trying to measure —
Van Morrison already heard it in 1970.
he just called it home.